One of the benefits of using open standards is that interoperability, while not guaranteed, becomes much easier. SightSpeed and Leadtek both have products that both speak the same language: SIP for...
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In the early days, it was SIPphone. Then Gizmo Project launched and everyone forgot about SIPphone. Recently, Michael Robertson and his team brought out Gizmo5, which was essentially Gizmo Project for...
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MAXroam, the global GSM SIM that makes calling from your mobile much cheaper when you're abroad, has officially launched. And boy are they launching in a big way by making their SIMs available at...
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On Friday, I had a conversation with Jangl CTO Ben Dean. While we primarily were discussing some of the privacy issues surrounding integrating your various Jangl-enhanced identities in your social...
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I've always admired Pat Phelan, right, from afar. Quite literally, because he's in Cork, Ireland and I'm up in the Seattle area of Washington state in the US. Yesterday, the next phase in...
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One of my biggest problems with any system that virtualizes your mobile telephone identity with different telephone numbers is that the telephone numbers aren't really telephone numbers. Sure, you...
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This particular press release isn't a surprise to me, given my past conversations with SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy. Distance learning is a clear application of video over IP, yet we don't see...
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When I read the press release for Jajah Direct-provided after the jump-my immediate thought was: hey, that sounds an awful lot like the way Jangl works: associate a phone number with a relationship...
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I have to admit, this caught me off-guard. But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Jangl has focused on enabling telephony within social networks, or anywhere else for that matter....
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A little birdie told me some interesting news about Numbr, a service I've previously written about. While I can't really go into the details, I can say they are looking at bringing their...
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MAXroam, the GSM SIM that doesn't know you're traveling, now offers free inbound telephone numbers in more countries than when they first launched. No matter what country the telephone number...
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As I said before, VoIP is about video and voice over the net. The folks behind VoIPSupply have taken it a step further and launched a site for IP-enabled surveillance: IPCameraSupply.com. Now this...
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I was tipped off about United Mobile from an Andy Abramson post. Hadn't heard of them before, but it looks like they are very similar to MaxRoam, a service I had written about before. United...
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If you're a small business, you've undoubtedly had to think about telephones in the office. Maybe you're doing Centrex (or the local equivalent). Maybe you've gone completely to...
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I wish I had posted about this sooner, given the terrible wildfires raging in Southern California right now. Unfortunately, life and the day job get in the way sometimes. :( Anyway, many of the folks...
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Voxalot has been a service that many do-it-yourself VoIP folks really like. In addition to giving you a Voxalot (not PSTN) number for life, they made it really easy to easily use multiple Internet...
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It's been a while since I've written about Yak4ever/AllFreeCalls, Pat Phelan's scheme to "end the rip off" of expensive long distance calls to 48 countries. The service is...
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While not the first company to offer video on their dialtone-over-IP service, I do believe BroadVoice is the first to give the hardware away-with a three year service agreement. BroadVoice's Ojo...
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